sheer pleasure in Misfortune

sheer pleasure in Misfortune

When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find in another's misfortune - is an all-too-familiar. The emotion of pleasure-in-others'-misfortune is a rapidly emerging research area for economists. The Roots of Schadenfreude: Why We Take Pleasure in Other People's Pain What getting satisfaction from someone's mishaps or failures may say about you. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's Depiction of Emotions as Adaptive Mechanisms. The emotion of joy in the misfortune of others is to be less acceptable than.